SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL 75 62 50
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.54% 8.84% 5.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.06% 32.63% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 40
10th Percentile £310 £335 £360
25th Percentile £400 £376 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £578 £466 £638
90th Percentile £600 £552 £725
South West median daily rate £505 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +18.82% -20.93% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.33 - -
Median hourly rate £52.67 - -
75th Percentile £54.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £45.33 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +25.92% +20.00% -58.90%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 340 190 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 25.09% 27.10% 27.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 110 129
10th Percentile £350 £320 £340
25th Percentile £413 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £650
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 39 80
10th Percentile £58.75 £64.50 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.88 £74.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.55 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% -2.86% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.33%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.67%) Apache
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (16.00%) Spreadsheet
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) NEC Housing
2 4 (5.33%) Maximo
2 4 (5.33%) Oracle Payroll
3 3 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.00%) Power Platform
2 16 (21.33%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) OCI
4 8 (10.67%) AWS
5 6 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.00%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Storage
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.33%) PowerApps
7 4 (5.33%) Serverless
7 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.00%) GitHub
9 2 (2.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) DNS
2 4 (5.33%) WAN
3 3 (4.00%) Firewall
4 2 (2.67%) 3GPP
4 2 (2.67%) 4G
4 2 (2.67%) 5G
4 2 (2.67%) 5G NR
4 2 (2.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.67%) LTE
4 2 (2.67%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (2.67%) MPLS
4 2 (2.67%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.67%) VoLTE
4 2 (2.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.00%) Power BI
2 7 (9.33%) Tableau
3 6 (8.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.33%) GIS
5 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
6 3 (4.00%) Neo4j
7 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.67%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.67%) Looker
7 2 (2.67%) Metadata
7 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.67%) Power Query
7 2 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (2.67%) Spatial Data
7 2 (2.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Git
2 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.67%) JIRA
3 4 (5.33%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.33%) GitLab
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.33%) Finance
5 3 (4.00%) Local Government
5 3 (4.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (30.67%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) Oracle Developer
2 13 (17.33%) Senior
3 10 (13.33%) Analyst
3 10 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Software Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Applications Support
5 7 (9.33%) Data Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) Architect
6 6 (8.00%) Senior Applications Support
6 6 (8.00%) Support Officer
7 4 (5.33%) Integration Manager
7 4 (5.33%) SQL Developer
8 3 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
9 2 (2.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Database Specialist
9 2 (2.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (9.33%) REST
3 6 (8.00%) Terraform
4 5 (6.67%) JSON
4 5 (6.67%) SOAP
5 4 (5.33%) HTML
5 4 (5.33%) JDBC
5 4 (5.33%) Middleware
5 4 (5.33%) XML
6 3 (4.00%) Kafka
6 3 (4.00%) PySpark
6 3 (4.00%) React
6 3 (4.00%) RESTful
7 2 (2.67%) .NET
7 2 (2.67%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.67%) Web Services
8 1 (1.33%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.33%) OAuth
8 1 (1.33%) Spring
8 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (29.33%) Analytics
3 19 (25.33%) Decision-Making
4 16 (21.33%) DevOps
5 14 (18.67%) Data Modelling
6 12 (16.00%) Data Engineering
6 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.33%) Agile
7 10 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 10 (13.33%) Visualisation
8 8 (10.67%) Data Governance
8 8 (10.67%) Information Security
8 8 (10.67%) Software Engineering
9 7 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.33%) CRM
9 7 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (9.33%) Roadmaps
9 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.00%) AI
10 6 (8.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) Python
2 17 (22.67%) PL/SQL
3 6 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) C
5 2 (2.67%) C#
5 2 (2.67%) R
5 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) LookML
6 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.33%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (12.00%) GDPR
3 3 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Docker
1 4 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Ansible
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) CASB
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) Oracle
2 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.33%) Databricks
3 7 (9.33%) NEC
4 4 (5.33%) Google
4 4 (5.33%) webMethods
5 3 (4.00%) Facebook
5 3 (4.00%) IBM
5 3 (4.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.67%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) Alteryx